College Football Week 10 Opening Odds Roundup: Alabama Betting Favorites vs. LSU

The Alabama Crimson Tide trail the LSU Tigers in this week's AP Top 25 poll, but they still opened as the betting favorites at sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark for the matchup between the two rivals at Bryant-Denny Stadium on Saturday night.

LSU is No. 4 and Alabama is No. 7 in the latest AP Top 25, but the Crimson Tide opened as seven-point favorites for Saturday's meeting in Tuscaloosa. LSU is a perfect 7-0 straight up and 4-3 against the spread on the season, with Alabama at 7-1 SU and 3-5 ATS.

When the schools met last year the Crimson Tide won 20-13 as a seven-point road favorite, resulting in a push on the betting lines. Alabama is 4-0 SU in its last four games against LSU but just 2-1-1 ATS, according to the OddsShark College Football Database. The road team is 4-1 SU in the last five games in this matchup, while the Crimson Tide are 0-5 ATS in their last five games at home.

LSU vs. Alabama is just one of three ranked matchups on the Week 10 board, with No. 3 Clemson hosting No. 17 Florida State and No. 12 Oklahoma State getting a visit from No. 5 TCU in the other two marquee contests. The line for Clemson vs. Florida State was off the board early in the week as the Seminoles sort through their injury situations at quarterback and running back, while TCU opened as a five-point favorite against Oklahoma State.

Top-ranked Ohio State opened as a 23-point home favorite against Minnesota for this week, with Cardale Jones getting the start at quarterback in place of the suspended J.T. Barrett for the Buckeyes. Ohio State is riding a nine-game SU win streak against Minnesota. No. 2 Baylor, meanwhile, opened as a big 18.5-point road favorite for its Thursday night game against Kansas State.

Up to No. 8 in the AP Top 25, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish opened as 7.5-point road favorites against Pittsburgh for their game on Saturday, with the betting trends for the week pointing out that the Fighting Irish are just 1-5 both SU and ATS in their last six games against the Panthers in the month of November and 0-5 ATS in their last five November games overall.

And No. 9 Stanford opened as a 16-point road favorite against Colorado for Saturday. The Cardinal are 7-0 SU and 6-1 ATS since their Week 1 defeat, and they beat the Buffaloes by a combined score of 96-7 in the two matchups between the schools back in 2011 and 2012.